Ben Iannacchione begins his first season on Head Coach Jake Dickert’s staff after being named WSU Football’s Head Strength and Conditioning Coach December 20, 2022. Iannacchione is no stranger to Dickert as the two worked together when both were on Craig Bohl’s staff at Wyoming during the 2018-19 seasons.
Iannacchione comes to Pullman having spent the 2022 season as the head strength and conditioning coach at Akron on Joe Moorhead’s staff. A former standout offensive lineman who played collegiately at Boise State, Iannacchione arrived at Akron after spending the 2021 campaign on the Pitt football strength and conditioning staff.
Iannacchione returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh with impressive coaching credentials having previously served as the director of sports performance for the football programs at Kansas (2020) and Wyoming (2018-19). Iannacchione was the associate strength and conditioning coach at LSU (2016-17), where he had oversight of the Tigers’ running backs, fullbacks, tight ends, and linebackers.
Iannacchione worked at LSU for four years from 2011-15 before returning in 2016. After a one-year intern stint in Baton Rouge, Iannacchione was elevated to fulltime assistant strength coach in 2012, overseeing the training of the Tigers’ offensive line. Additionally, he was the lead strength coach for the men’s and women’s swimming teams.
During his time at LSU, Iannacchione was an instrumental figure for six bowl teams, including the 2011 SEC-title team that advanced to the BCS National Championship Game.
In 2015, he was the head strength and conditioning coach at Youngstown State, where he worked primarily with the football program.
A first-team All-Quad East performer at Baldwin High School, Iannacchione played collegiately at Boise State, lettering twice on the offensive front. Over his four-year career (2005-08), the Broncos compiled a 44-8 record, including three Western Athletic Conference (WAC) titles and three bowl games. The 2006 team went 13-0 and earned a No. 5 final national ranking after beating Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.
Iannacchione graduated from Boise State in 2008, earning a bachelor’s degree in communications. He then earned a master’s degree in in kinesiology from LSU in 2012.
He and his wife, Renee, have three children: daughter Luciana and sons Salvatore and Sonny.
